https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem.atomNational Space Club - Huntsville - STEM2019-08-18T16:20:00-05:00National Space Club - Huntsvillehttps://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/great-things-happening-for-browncoats-ftc-team-78422019-08-18T16:20:00-05:002019-08-18T16:20:56-05:00Great Things Happening for Browncoats, FTC Team 7842Maggie LeeOn behalf of the Browncoats, FTC Team 7842, we would like to thank you for donating to our 2018-2019 Season. Your donation helped us pay for the fees associated with attending the 2019 FIRST World Championship held in Houston, Texas on April 16-20, 2019 where we placed 8th in our division of 80 teams. We placed your logo on our robot, in our Engineering Notebook, on the display boards that we take to all competitions, and on our website.

Our purpose is to support a team that competes within the FIRST Tech Challenge guidelines and in FTC sponsored competitions. Participants learn engineering principles such as building, computer coding, technical and scientific writing, experimentation, marketing, fund raising, group and team work skills, along with other STEM areas.

For the 2018-2019 season, the Browncoats worked to spread FIRST and FIRST Tech Challenge throughout Alabama by participating in community events and by reaching out to local schools, churches, home schools, and engineering companies. Over 900 hours of outreach were accumulated by participating in these many events.

Once again, the Browncoats wish to express our sincere appreciation for the support received from the National Space Club of Huntsville. We truly could not continue without your generous support.

Sincerely;The BrowncoatsFTC 7842

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/changing-lives-at-columbia-high-school2019-08-18T16:18:00-05:002019-08-18T16:19:02-05:00Changing Lives at Columbia High SchoolMaggie Lee
Columbia High School Robotics Team

Thanks to the Space Club's support:

Several students have discovered a passion in new career paths - some in STEM career fields like software engineering, machining, or designing parts in CAD, while for others it was in something like graphic design or project management (our business team won the Entrepreneurship Award for having the best business plan of the teams at their competition!)

We were connected with several students that were lower income / drop out risks and worked to engage them in the importance of their education and found ways to help at home and motivate them.

Our students saw their ideas go from whiteboard to reality and saw themselves empowered to continue this further.

We cannot thank you enough for your support - Columbia High School is a school which struggles heavily with poverty (the entire school is on a grant which provides every student free breakfast, lunch and dinner before leaving school), and a lot of our students do not come from families which push their students to pursue any type of career after high school, much less a college career. The Huntsville Space Club is doing more than sponsoring a robotics competition - you're helping to change lives.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/guinness-world-record-rocket-launch2019-07-19T08:39:00-05:002019-07-19T08:39:53-05:00Guinness World Record Rocket LaunchMaggie Leehttps://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/mad-rockers-robotics-team-29732019-05-15T08:28:00-05:002019-05-15T08:29:06-05:00Mad Rockers Robotics Team 2973Maggie Lee
We wanted to share this letter we received from one of the Robotics Teams we (our club and it’s members) support. This is a thank you to all our members and sponsors of The National Space Club-HSV, as we work to #InspireTheNextGeneration

Dear National Space Club,

On behalf of the Mad Rockers team 2973, I would like to thank you for donating to the Mad Rockers for our 2019 Season. Your donation was used to build this seasons competition robot.

Your donation has been used for our 2019 season. Your logo was/is displayed on the robot as well as our team website. Your donation will also help us purchase the necessary equipment and supplies in order to build and improve future robots as well as cover travel fees for our team. The Mad Rockers would not be able to teach students lifelong skills without sponsors, like you, funding our mission of inspiring and teaching students in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Thank you for supporting the STEM mission of the Mad Rockers and allowing us to compete in the Rocket City Regional Competition for the 2019 Robotics Season.

FIRST Robotics changes the lives of students and helps prepare them for college and the workforce. We would like to thank you for your consideration in enriching future STEM leaders in FIRST Robotics. It is due to people and business like you that our high school team is able to succeed in our endeavours.

This season Meridianville Middle School had 3 VEX robotic teams that started with 15 members and finished with 12. In Alabama, high school and middle school teams compete together.

Therefore, the middle school teams were going against high school students.

Over the course of the season, the three teams participated in 4 qualification tournaments and in the Alabama state championship. In the qualification tournaments teams received the following awards:

Middle School Excellence Award (3 out of 4 tournaments),

Tournament Champions (3 out of 4 tournaments) and

Robot Skills Champion (2 out of 4 tournaments)

The teams placed 9th, 30th and 40th out of 60 teams in the qualifications. One team won the Middle School Excellence award and were tournament champions (paired with the Madison County High School team).

Meridianville's other team had the top robot skills point total which involves driver skills and programming skills. Those two teams are qualified for the world tournament and will be going to Louisville April 24th.

Congratulations to Meridianville Middle School VEX Robotics!

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/first-robotics-competition2019-03-16T15:12:00-05:002019-03-21T15:32:38-05:00FIRST Robotics CompetitionMaggie Clark
National Space Club Huntsville was thrilled to sponsor The FIRST Robotics Competition at the Von Braun Center.

The FIRST Robotics Competition is a robotics competition that stands for the following: For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology

FIRST provides high school students real-world engineering experience. Students grades 8 through 12 from across the globe work 6 weeks to build a 125-pound robot and compete with other teams.

This year, two teams use remote controls to maneuver their robot and shoot baskets into hoops. Whichever team's robot shoots the most hoops is the winning team. Congratulations to all participants! We love supporting opportunities that promote students to pursue STEM.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/madison-county-high-school-robotics-team2019-03-06T10:53:00-06:002019-03-13T10:39:52-05:00Madison County High School Robotics TeamMaggie Clark
Congratulations to the Madison County High School Robotics Team!

Over the course of the season, the team competed with four robots and ALL four qualified for the VEX Robotics State Championship.

The kids did really well!

One team went undefeated through 6 qualifying matches and was ranked #1 going into the single elimination bracket. They lost early, but another team ranked 10th, did outstanding and WON THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!

So, they are off to WORLDS late April, we are very proud of them and wish them the best of luck!

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/supplier-diversity-conference2018-07-17T18:56:00-05:002018-07-17T18:56:38-05:00Supplier Diversity ConferenceMaggie ClarkSupplier Diversity Conference put on by Drake State Community & Technical College

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/nasa-in-the-park-20182018-06-17T14:24:00-05:002018-06-17T14:24:35-05:00NASA in the Park 2018Maggie Clark
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table yesterday for the Annual NASA in the Park Event. We had Umbrella Bag Rockets flying everywhere. We will have a table at Biergarten Thursday, July 26th - hope everyone will make plans to join us.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/nasa-s-2018-student-launch-competition2018-04-09T13:38:00-05:002018-04-09T13:45:40-05:00NASA’s 2018 Student Launch CompetitionMaggie Clark
Thanks to our members we are able to continue our support to programs such as NASA’a 2018 Student Launch Competition held at Bragg Farms every year. This is a wonderful program where #54 student teams compete in NASA’s Annual Student Launch. Middle School, High School and College, University Teams from 23 states will launch their student-built rockets. Each rocket is programmed to fly an altitude of 1 mile, deploy an automated parachute system and safely land. The rockets will also have to carry a student-built payload. Once again it is because of our members and the support of their annual dues that we support programs like this. If you are interested in becoming a member please see our Member Button at the top of the page.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/supporting-local-stem-high-school-program2018-03-25T19:20:00-05:002018-03-25T19:20:29-05:00Supporting Local STEM High School ProgramMaggie Clark
Support to the Mad Rockers

We are happy to be a sponsor of the Bob Jones/James Clemens, Mad Rockers Team. Here a student does some last minute work on their robot before competition. #InspiringTheNextGeneration

The Space Hardware Club is a University of Alabama in Huntsville student organization. The Club is student-run and strictly volunteer. We conceptualize, design, build, test, and fly flight hardware for high altitude balloons, satellites in space (ChargerSat Program), the CanSat competition, and high powered rocketry. The Space Hardware Club is also the home of amateur radio station K4UAH.

2017 Team Members that attended our Annual Dr. Wernher von Braun Memorial Dinner where they were acknowledged and received their award.

Dr. Francis Wesseling

Eliza Dellert

Benjamin Thompson

Ian Slamen

Christopher Helmerich

Sarah Dangeia

Chandler Ellis

McKynzie Perry

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/nasa-in-the-park-20172017-06-19T10:09:00-05:002017-06-19T10:09:52-05:00NASA in the Park 2017Maggie Clark
WOW, what a successful NASA in the Park, 2017! Thank you to MSFC and Downtown HSV for hosting such a wonderful event. National Space Club-Huntsville Launch Pad was busy all day with children young and old setting flight to their very own Umbrella Bag Rockets. Looking forward to seeing everyone again next summer.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/redstone-rocket-talks-about-nsc-hsv-breakfast2017-05-30T14:42:00-05:002017-05-30T14:42:21-05:00Redstone Rocket Talks about NSC-HSV BreakfastMaggie Clark
National Space Club-Huntsville was thrilled to have Redstone Arsenal Senior Commander Lt Gen Larry Wyche as our Guest Speaker for our monthly Breakfast Meeting in May. We were also happy to have some of the students from the Motorized Mayhem FIRST LEGO League Robotics Team of Madison out to show off their hardware.

If you missed the event, see the link below to check out the article featured in the Redstone Rocket.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/nasa-announced-winners-of-the-orbital-atk-rocketry-challenge2017-05-30T14:31:00-05:002017-05-30T14:32:34-05:00NASA Announced Winners of the Orbital ATK Rocketry ChallengeMaggie Clark
National Space Club- HSV was happy to be a sponsor of this years 2nd Place Award.

"In second place, after a record-setting “four-peat” as champions, is Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. They earned a cash prize of $2,500, offered by new sponsor, the National Space Club – Huntsville. For 10 straight years, Vanderbilt soared to success with innovative rocket designs and payloads, and this year was no exception. Having earned more than 20 awards the past decade, the Commodores of Vanderbilt added the 2017 Payload Design, Rocket Fair Display and Education Engagement awards."

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/joining-us-for-breakfast-motorized-mayhem2017-05-17T15:36:00-05:002017-05-17T15:36:06-05:00Joining Us for Breakfast - Motorized MayhemMaggie Clarkhttps://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/2017-nasa-student-launch2017-04-12T15:47:00-05:002017-04-12T15:48:11-05:002017 NASA Student LaunchMaggie Clark
We were thrilled to be apart of this year 2017 NASA Student Launch

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/first-robotics-regional-competition2017-03-27T15:45:00-05:002017-03-27T15:54:34-05:00FIRST Robotics Regional CompetitionMaggie Clark
Happy to have been a sponsor of this years FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Huntsville, Alabama at the VonBraun Civic Center. This event is an international high school robotics competition that gives students real-world engineering experience.

For more information about FIRST visit their website: www.firstinspires.org

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/madison-county-high-school-robotics2017-02-07T15:34:00-06:002017-02-07T15:34:17-06:00Madison County High School RoboticsMaggie Clark
We were happy to have some of the students from

Madison County High School Robotics Team

They came out to one of our networking breakfast meetings to show off their robot that competed in local, regional and national competitions.

We are Alabama Astrobotics, a robotics team at The University of Alabama that competes each year in NASA's Robotic Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral and NASA's Sample Return Robotics Centennial Challenge at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. We also participate in outreach efforts with the university and in the Tuscaloosa area to encourage young students to pursue STEM careers.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/congratulations-to-frances-coleman-awardee-2016-educator-of-the-year2017-02-07T15:20:00-06:002017-02-07T15:20:15-06:00Congratulations to Frances Coleman, Awardee 2016 Educator of the YearMaggie Clark
Learn a little more about our 2016 Educator of the Year Awardee,

Frances Coleman

This is my eighth year to teach at Scottsboro High School and I am excited to be at my alma mater. I graduated from SHS in 1986 and The University of Alabama in 1990 with a BS in Microbiology. I am looking forward to being a part of the Career Tech faculty as well as working with the students of SGA. I will be teaching Applied Engineering Systems (Project Lead The Way), Research and Design, Biology, and Physics this year.

This will be Scottsboro High School's 3rd year to participate with Project Lead the Way engineering curriculum. Mr. Tom Doll will be offering Foundations to Engineering Design as a new class here at SHS along with the Principles of Engineering that I have already been teaching for the past 2 years. This curriculum is being adopted system wide and has already started in the elementary classes as well as the Junior High School. This is a complete STEM hands on approach to applied math, physics and engineering. If you are interested in learning more about PLTW or participating as a resource or guest speaker for any of my classes please feel free to email me at the link above or call my room (256) 218-2054.

I am married to Hardin Coleman. We have two great kids, Kate and Will, and a variety of animals. If I am not at school, you can find me at the barn or camping with the family.

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https://www.spaceclubhsv.org/blogs/stem/young-minds-at-work-day2016-11-15T01:09:00-06:002016-11-15T01:09:58-06:00Young Minds at Work DayMark Becnel
National Space Club – Huntsville continues to support STEM programs throughout North Alabama.]]>